Today, many zoos promote the protection of biodiversity as a significant part of their mission. As conservation “arks” for endangered species and, increasingly, as leaders in field conservation projects…

Gump, who died in May, was the last known member of her species.
Director of National Parks/SuppliedAugust 7, 2014

Among the most haunting and evocative images of Australian wildlife are the black and white photographs of the last Thylacine, languishing alone in Hobart Zoo. It’s an extraordinary reminder of how close…

What’s the best way to give Australia’s mammals a helping hand?
Northern Australia Hub, National Environmental Research ProgramJune 11, 2014

Twenty-nine Australian land mammals have become extinct over the last 200 years, and 56 are currently facing extinction. These losses and potential losses represent over a third of the 315 species present…

What lives in Brazil and looks like a football? Brazil’s official World Cup mascot. The three-banded armadillo is a mammal native to Brazil’s dry tropical forests, and rolls into a ball when threatened…

Back after going missing for more than a century: the New Guinea big-eared bat.
Julie Broken-Brow/suppliedMay 30, 2014

More than a century after it was “lost”, the New Guinea big-eared bat has been discovered by Queensland researchers working in Papua New Guinea’s forests. The critically endangered bat was thought to be…

The grey-faced sengi, found only in remote East African forests, is related to elephants.
Francesco RoveroNovember 15, 2013

There’s no doubt the slow loris is a cuddly cutie from central casting. It is an animal that could easily have been dreamed up in the studios of the Disney Corporation of the 1950s and I’m afraid that…